Ah, you reaped a nice capital gain for yourself from all their valiant efforts. No wonder you love it so. But that's ok, it was a moment and you were there. Keep hanging on.

Oh, and don't confuse Prince Street with the rest of SoHo.

NannyState

It is both. Most of the original artists still remain, despite what the NYT Real Estate Sections and followers like you may think. Many of the new residents are in the creative fields or rich artists.

Tourists from noon to 7pm, and a nice neighborhood the rest of the time.

But how would you know, since you spend all your time on Gothamist? It must be hard staying in first place, being #1. Probably the first time you were first in anything in your life and it takes no talent at all! How fortunate!

In conclusion, don't be jealous that my $50,000 loft (and my fellow artists) is now worth $2M, while you reside primarily on the internet.

So. I take it that thanks to the SoHo alliance, SoHo remains a wonderfully vibrant haven for artists and creative people and isn't an overpriced, tripple A credit tennant retail ghetto for tourists? Bravo, The Facts.

Everyone knows that Apple stores are just fronts for major drug operations. Check out the lines at the uptown store.

SoHo Alliance is not a stock offering, Dan.

The fact that the Alliance legalized residential use in SoHo and the fact that SoHo is among the highest real estate residential prices in the USA should indicate that these guys can plan for the future as well as they handled the past.

If you don't believe that, I have a stock in the bottom quintile in returns for the past 22 years that you likely would buy. Interested? Sounds like it.

I also have a winner of a stock, but I am not going to tell you that one. You know, your maxim "Past performance is not indicative of future results."

@thefacts: Past performance is not indicative of future results.

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I guess being the #1 commenter on Gothamist leaves one with the obligation to blather incessantly, even when the facts are wrong and it effectively becomes verbal diarrhea.

Before opening your mouth, if you had researched you would have known that the SoHo Alliance is the group that helped create SoHo from a slum back in the 60s/70s, legalizing residential living there.

They continue to work as a block association for the nabe.

In fact, it was at their first meeting that the word 'SoHo' was coined.

Hardly the people who 'ruined' SoHo.

But blather is more important than truth to some people.

So the same people that ruined SoHo are bitching about a business that is ruining their ruins?

Hey bh & edge! I still have a princess phone and dail-up on my 28.8 baud modem on my IIci! It works wonders on youtube!

I wish they made that street pedestrians only. That would've been rad.

The leaves DO get annoying.

The Soho Alliance organized the neighborhood to oppose a city proposal to pilot making Prince Street a temporary pedestrian street. Now they are writing a letter seeking "an end to the sidewalk congestion". I have an idea - why don't you... pilot making Prince Street a temporary pedestrian street you fools?

Some neighborhoods have real problems - Crown Heights is fighting to stop the city from adding a 1500-bed homeless psychiatric intake center to what is already one of the largest and worst homeless shelters in the city, not decrying the presence one of the highest quality retailers in the world. F*ck Soho - victim of its own affluence I have little sympathy for. It's like people with homes on Central Park West complaining about all the leaves in October.

#6- I don't have a iphone 3G but I have a phone that supports 3G and HSDPA -- I get DSL speeds on my phone. Nice for when I'm traveling and need to get online with my laptop.

Re: Jonas Brothers.

I literally thought that it said:

Among the complaints were CREAMING teens. Heh. Well it IS one letter away from "screaming." Better yet, should say: "Among the complaints were CREAMING teens FLOODING the sidewalks.."

SoHo is So (H)over. I was just at that store a few days ago. Everything seemed civil inside and out.

Hey SOHO hahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha

You know, these idiots could move out of Soho if they hate the Apple Store so much.

These are like the morons that come to NYC to "be in NYC!!" and then complain about bar noise because they got an apartment across from a bar.

Losers.

the new iphone sucks! 3g is not that great and the plan is awful. I regret getting it.

there's something to be said about being a good neighbor, and not taking the neighborhood for granted and acting like you're the be all end all. they're not curing cancer in there, so they should stop acting like their shit doesn't stink.